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The governance pillar in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) refers to the systems, policies, and practices that ensure an organisation is managed responsibly and ethically. It includes issues such as board structure, reporting & disclosures, shareholders & voting, and risk management. Strong governance reduces risks, enhances trust, and supports long-term business sustainability.
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Building consensus on societal wellbeing: A semantic synthesis of indicators to move beyond GDP
Analyses 213 wellbeing indicators using semantic modelling to identify conceptual overlap and optimal design beyond GDP. Finds strong thematic convergence and diminishing returns beyond roughly 20 components. Proposes a synthesised 20-component indicator to support international consensus on measuring sustainable and inclusive wellbeing.
A blueprint for best practice in investor collaborations
This guide outlines best practice for investor collaborations addressing systemic ESG risks. It defines collaboration models, examines benefits and barriers, and presents a six-step framework covering leadership, governance, alignment, resourcing and accountability. Case studies illustrate how structured, investor-led initiatives can influence corporate behaviour and public policy.
Integrating human rights due diligence (HRDD) in finance and investment
Guide outlining how investors integrate human rights due diligence (HRDD) into ESG processes, particularly listed equities. It explains regulatory drivers, investor risks and opportunities, practical integration steps, barriers and case studies, emphasising saliency, stewardship, remediation and governance to manage human rights risks and align with evolving global standards.
Total Impact Portfolio: Constructing an investment portfolio with an impact lens
This guide outlines constructing a Total Impact Portfolio (TIP), integrating risk, return and impact across all asset classes. It explains double materiality, portfolio design steps, responsible investment strategies, measurement frameworks and barriers. Case studies illustrate Australian and international asset owners embedding impact within governance, allocation and performance management.
Restoring human progress: Winning citizens’ support for actions on climate and nature
This report argues that despite widespread concern about climate and nature, durable policy support depends on restoring belief in human progress. Drawing on surveys and literature, it proposes three principles: deliver meaningful sectoral gains, play to national strengths, and make progress visible to build optimism, agency and sustained public backing.
Ecological design thinking for a circular economy: The impact of the forest metaphor for circular business
Evaluates a forest-metaphor learning tool for circular economy education through comparative workshops in 2023 and 2025. Survey results show the tool deepened understanding, generated more concrete insights and increased productive tension with existing business models, supporting conceptual change and more fruitful engagement with circular business thinking.
Making the case: Macroeconomic risk & portfolio impact: A tool for system-level investors
Provides system-level investors with practical language, research and engagement tools to address macroeconomic and systemic risks. Argues diversified portfolios depend primarily on overall market performance, which is shaped by social and environmental externalities, and supports stewardship actions to protect long-term portfolio value.
Recalibrating climate risk: Aligning damage functions with scientific understanding
This report argues climate damage functions systematically underestimate risks by relying on smooth, GDP-centred models. Drawing on expert elicitation, it highlights nonlinear, cascading and tail risks, tipping points, and limits to growth. It recommends recalibrating modelling and financial supervision towards precaution, systemic resilience and transparent uncertainty.
OECD Climate Action Dashboard
The OECD Climate Action Dashboard is an interactive tool showing key indicators of national climate action and progress towards objectives such as net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. It provides comparable, country-level data to track climate mitigation, emissions trends and policy responses.
PerilScope: Strategic Deep Dive Copernicus Global Climate Highlights 2025 — From Records to Operating Conditions in the 3°C World SRP® Frame
The article interprets Copernicus’s Global Climate Highlights 2025 as a shift from episodic extremes to a structurally warmer, more volatile baseline. It argues that persistent temperature exceedances, ocean heat, cryosphere decline, and overlapping hazards demand a move from climate risk awareness to disciplined adaptation and continuity planning.
Carbon Tracker Initiative
Carbon Tracker’s Reports page hosts research analysing how supply, demand and climate policy affect fossil-fuel exposed companies and markets. It provides scenario analysis, methodological frameworks and sector-specific insights for investors and policymakers on climate-related financial risk and the energy transition.
The Three Horizons of Decarbonisation
This article presents the Three Horizons of Decarbonisation framework, helping companies distinguish between short-term efficiency measures, operational transformation, and fundamental business model shifts. It explains how clear horizon identification improves capital allocation, stakeholder engagement, and the likelihood that net zero plans translate into meaningful action.
Hong Kong taxonomy for sustainable finance (phase 2A)
Phase 2A of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance sets out detailed criteria for classifying environmentally sustainable activities, aligned with international taxonomies. It covers additional sectors, technical screening thresholds, and transition activities, aiming to enhance transparency, comparability and capital allocation towards climate mitigation and adaptation in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution and de facto central bank, established in 1993. It maintains currency stability under the Linked Exchange Rate System, supervises banking and financial institutions, promotes financial system integrity, manages the Exchange Fund and supports Hong Kong’s role as an international financial centre.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution and de facto central bank, established in 1993. It maintains currency stability under the Linked Exchange Rate System, supervises banking regulation and financial infrastructure, manages the Exchange Fund and supports Hong Kong’s role as a leading international financial centre.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong’s central banking institution and de facto central bank, established in 1993. It maintains currency stability under the Linked Exchange Rate System, supervises banking regulation and financial infrastructure, manages the Exchange Fund and supports Hong Kong’s role as a leading international financial centre.
Global pension transparency benchmark
The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark is a benchmark series initiated in 2021 that assesses how clearly major pension funds disclose information on value-generation for stakeholders. It evaluates public disclosures across four equally weighted factors — governance and organisation, performance, costs and responsible investing — using a structured scoring methodology. The purpose is to promote better transparency and accountability in pension reporting. Finance professionals can use the benchmark to compare disclosure practices, inform improvements in fund reporting and align with evolving global standards.
National Energy System Operator (NESO)
National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain’s public energy system operator and strategic planner, balancing electricity and gas networks to ensure reliable, affordable power while supporting the UK’s transition to net zero. NESO integrates system operations, planning and innovation with stakeholders to enable clean energy growth and security of supply.
National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain’s public energy system operator and planner, balancing electricity supply and demand and coordinating electricity and gas network planning to ensure secure, affordable power. NESO supports clean energy transition, net zero targets and strategic infrastructure development while engaging industry and government partners.
National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain’s public energy system operator and planner, balancing electricity supply and demand and coordinating electricity and gas network planning to ensure secure, affordable power. NESO supports clean energy transition, net zero targets and strategic infrastructure development while engaging industry and government partners.